I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off. So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.
Try to secure advantages before attacking. If possible, keep the sun behind you.
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.
When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.
I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified.
The Internet is just it's great in a lot of ways and it has its disadvantages. But one of the great advantages is the ubiquity - virtually anyone can be discovered and things catch like fire when they're great.
I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.
The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.
Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material advantages as compared with a proletarian wage-system where millions live in semi-starvation, and many millions more in permanent dread thereof. But even if it were administered thus Communism would only produce its benefits through imposing slavery.
On the Web, all advantages are temporary, and you must keep innovating to stay ahead
I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you.
One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.
I've always been big. I'm never going to be an underwear model. But I am who I am, and that has its advantages and disadvantages.
I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.
Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.
He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.
The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.